Lenara Verle
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Lenara Verle
@lenara
gardener & invisible economist. art & currency, open design, alternative economy, cryptoart, random things. aka y0b
Katılım Mayıs 2007
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when your (anon) mountain shelter starts showing on trendy magazines and you find out about it on Instagram
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All we have to lose are our chains.
It's been an incredible journey from starting this project with @kassandraETH from zero and getting it this far by just bootstrapping our way up.
New branding, same mission. Post-capitalism.
Check it out
bread.coop
Bread Cooperative@breadcoop
From today, Breadchain will be known as Bread Cooperative. Same mission. Same team. Clearer path forward. Tools for working people, everywhere. Solidarity forever 🍞
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@oficinastk Yay! Best luck with it, looks like a great endeavour to be working on! I'm super curious and will be waiting for the draft.
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@lenara and so you will as soon as I get it ordered enough to be a draft.
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I'm researching thinkers on the topic of imagination and hope. Send recommendations!
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@lenara give me a year or so, and I'll recommend myself as one of those authors too. So far, I got around these 7 topics. There's also a new calendar :)
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@theAngieTaylor @session_app @element_hq @ChainLeftist @NFTWannabe @_pixellare @HolomediaVn @ForcesHidden @oficinastk @maxOSIRISart @OriginalGoldCat @stellabelle @TheGaloisCxn @ilan_katin Which of those two is your favorite? I think I have them both installed, gotta dust off those apps...
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Time to uninstall these fucking apps. Let’s get @session_app and @element_hq communities going folks! We CAN build alternatives! @ChainLeftist @NFTWannabe @_pixellare @HolomediaVn @ForcesHidden @oficinastk @maxOSIRISart @OriginalGoldCat @stellabelle @TheGaloisCxn @ilan_katin ❤️
WikiLeaks@wikileaks
Israeli-Aligned Billionaires Seize TikTok in Battle for U.S. Narrative Control The White House has announced that the forced sale of TikTok will be finalized this week. The new ownership led by Larry Ellison - the largest individual donor to the IDF - will take control of U.S. user data and the algorithm which the White House says will be "retrained". Ellison, who made his fortune developing Oracle - a database system he originally built for the CIA - already controls CBS, Paramount, MTV, Comedy Central, Showtime, Nickelodeon (which makes kids shows) as well as Channel 10 in Australia and Channel 5 in the UK. Ellison is also expected to finalize control over Warner Bros. Discovery (including CNN, HBO and the Discovery channel) before the end of 2025. Even before the forced sale is finalised, censorship of TikTok content critical of Israel, including of the deal itself, has reached extreme levels as the platform moves to align with its prospective new owners. Fox – a Murdoch asset - is also seeking to join the Ellison consortium, a move that could enable cross-promotion between Fox and TikTok, further tightening the Israeli-aligned information bubble. Disapproval of what Israel is doing in Gaza has risen to 60% of the US population, nearly double the approval rate of 32%. The U.S. still has over three years of Trump left. Israeli-aligned Jewish billionaires control OpenAI, Google, Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, Palantir, CBS, HBO, and most of Conde Nast (Reddit, Vogue, The New Yorker, Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair) as well as numerous Hollywood studios, regional papers and radio stations. Europe, meanwhile, remains largely absent, offering little real competition in the information space. Its one real success story? Telegram, which it managed to comprehensively alienate after France arrested its founder, supposedly for not handing over enough user data. Will the EU and other U.S. allies align with the “Israelified” TikTok algorithm, or attempt to create a politicised alternative of their own? Decentralised alternatives like Keet and Nostr offer strong resistance to censorship but are still young. Larger platforms like Telegram and Rednote carry serious risks of censorship, including eventual sell-off to other interests. For users the sweet spot may be to use both. One for political reliability, the others for a (politically temporary) audience.
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@theAngieTaylor @TeiaArt @NFTWannabe Welcome back to action!! Collected to celebrate your successful surgery 🦾
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Post-Surgery-Minting again! Renewed energy! (Or maybe it’s the morphine!) 🤣
Collect “HAD ENOUGH” on @TeiaArt - a tribute to @NFTWannabe and the F.U.C.K.T.H.E.B.A.N.K.S project.
Only 5 Tez for the first 20! 👇
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Besides Byung-Chul Han "The Spirit of Hope" and Luciana Bazanella "Reimaginação Radical" I am also reading Mark Vernon "Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination", Ailton Krenak "Futuro Ancestral", and Rob Brezsny "Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia".
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@saintsonso @kimasendorf I liked when it was called Rare Digital Art. I'm waiting for the day the acronym NFT will be an artifact of the past. Hopefully soon.
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I love this from @kimasendorf
NFTs are a poor technical name for something much bigger, Digital World Assets.
As much as I try to be a a voice of reason and moderation, I could not be more bullish on digital world assets in the medium to long term. They are inevitable.
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@shibboleth88 I made it. It's part of the linked article that I wrote a while ago. I loved your take by the way. Maybe we can expand on the analysis together.
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the reasons to own a digital object are still quite scarce
(in order of how these are practiced):
1. to sell it
2. to send a social signal
3. to gain access to a network
4. to make a bet on a future where digital object ownership is pervasive & meaningful
5. to feel closer to it
6. to support the entity who made it
7. to preserve it by wrapping it in a perception of value
Based on extrapolation from the current known, I do think that digital ownership will indeed become pervasive, ambient, engrained. But it's probably a few left turns away from what we know now.
Some scattered thoughts on that:
In the art part of digital assets, things are atm enormously polar, split between high volume/low cost items (or just low cost), and items that are positioned as offerings on the altar of validity, crucibles of the success or failure of digital ownership for which collectors are incentived to perform in order to prove that there is worth in their investments.
There's some potential of a kind of functional cultural currency that can bear financial value, but that tends toward blurriness which tends toward content coin which tends toward vacuumed-out hollowness (prove it again).
Yet, trading things for other things is quintessential to humanity, it's not just a banal nothing, it's symbiosis, it's the root of language, it's the root of 'this is that', but it's not an end in itself, or if it is then it's the end of self (which could be quite cool really).
And people are still living here in the root fibers of a maybe future. At this point they're very clearly here for each other. Which is a sign of strength I think, it signs that this might be a Place. Over the last years there have been many times when it seemed like that was it, but I'm continually surprised and heartened that something like digital ownership can accommodate and nourish being-for-each-other.
In the end as in the beginning, one can only keep trying to do what works when it works, and to teeter on the threshold between stubbornness and ghostly mutability.
sonso (🐥,🪱)@saintsonso
I love this from @kimasendorf NFTs are a poor technical name for something much bigger, Digital World Assets. As much as I try to be a a voice of reason and moderation, I could not be more bullish on digital world assets in the medium to long term. They are inevitable.
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@ericprhodes @chilltulpa Is there a blog post explaining more? Or maybe just an incoming twitter thread? I'll be happy to read.
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@chilltulpa value extraction always gets the spotlight. personally, i'll keep focusing on the value creation end of the spectrum.
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@Pointshark1 Just saw this tool recently. There's a commercial service as well that might be easier to use if you need:
chones.xyz/2025/04/14/rec…
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Gazers, Joy, alotta money, Josie, voxels parcels, crash blossom. All gone. How do we freeze/recover/blacklist stolen items? I’m fucked. Can’t even transfer out cause they took all my tokens also.
Pointshark@Pointshark1
Just got hacked. This is fucked. No joke.
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@mintbase More platforms should release as open source when they close.
Big kudos for that move 💪
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@theAngieTaylor My deepest condolences. I could feel how much love there is between you two. Sending a big hug from here ❤️
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My darling Mum passed away this week. Another huge hole is removed from my soul. Hug the ones you love my friends. Spend time with your fam ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Artist co-ops are public goods! Support us in this @OctantApp @ensdomains @Giveth QF round 👯
bit.ly/stateless-give…
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